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Turn Illness into a Weapon
Artistic Perspectives Within Healthcare Movements
Aus der Krankheit eine Waffe machen – Aus der Krankheit eine Waffe machen
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Reacting to the healthcare system’s discriminatory structures, in 1972, Sozialistische Patient*innenkollektiv (Socialist Patients’ Collective) decided to weaponise their illnesses.
The group aimed not to portray illness as an individual problem that must be overcome alone, but to show its complex connections with social neglect and structural inequalities.
In this context, this exhibition draws attention to the structural and intersectional disadvantages faced by disabled, chronically ill, and/or neurodivergent people in a late-capitalist, ableist system.
How can illness be turned into a weapon?
When it became clear that the abandoned building was to be transformed into artists’ studios, the initiative Kampfkomitee Bethanien, among others, demanded to use the space as a children’s polyclinic.
In the exhibition, 17 artists are brought into dialogue with the site where these specific political struggles played out. The artists present critiques of the current conditions in art and healthcare policy, and point towards alternatives.
The group exhibition Turn Illness into a Weapon – Artistic Perspectives within Healthcare Movements takes its starting point from the grassroots healthcare struggles around the former Diakonissen- Krankenhaus (protestant hospital) Bethanien in 1970s Berlin.
With
Anguezomo Mba Bikoro
The Chronic Iconic (Jessica Cummin)
Chloe Pascal Crawford
Criptonite (Edwin Ramirez & Nina Mühlemann)
Miriam Döring
Tomás Espinosa
Eva Egermann & Cordula Thym
Lotti Fellner-Wyler
Feministische Gesundheitsrecherchegruppe
Cornelia Herfurtner
Kallia Kefala
Magda Korsinsky
Julia Lübbecke
MELT (Ren Loren Britton & Iz Paehr)
Silvi Naçi
Sophie Utikal
RA Walden
Curated by: Linnéa Meiners
Curatorial Assistant: Gianna Ehrke
Events
Opening: Friday, 31/05/24, 5 - 11 pm
7 pm welcome: Stéphane Bauer,
opening speech: Linnéa Meiners
Followed by a concert by Gigolo Tears
Video Intervention by Power Makes us Sick (PMS)
Wednesday, 05/06/24, 6 pm
Curatorial tour with Linnéa Meiners
Monday, 10/06/24, 6 pm
Tour in German Sign Language
Thursday, 13/06/24, 6 pm
Tour for blind and visually impaired people
with Ugne Metzner and Franciska JC Schmit
Thursday, 20/06/24, 6 pm
Tour with Gianna Ehrke with translation in German Sign Language
Saturday, 22/06/24, 10:30 a.m.
Walking tour through Schokofabrik, HeileHaus
Thursday, 27/06/24, 6 pm
Film screening SPK Komplex, 111 minutes, German with English subtitles
Followed by a conversation with director Gerd Kroske and protagonist Carmen Roll
Wednesday, 03/07/24, 10:30 am and 6 pm
MÜDE by Kallia Kefala
10:30 am: Low Sensory Performance 6:00 pm: Higher Sensory Performance
Friday, 05/07/24, 5 p.m.
We doctor ourselves!
Gigolo Tears, celebrating disabled and crazy - Pride Parade Berlin & Cashmiri
Concert, participatory performance and DJ set
Monday, 12/08/24, 6 pm
Podium moderated by Kate Brehme
Sunday, 18/08/24, 5 pm
Finissage with curatorial tour
with Linnéa Meiners
Low-Sensory Timeslots
Every Wednesday, for two hours in the morning or evening respectively, sensory stimuli (volume, light, number of visitors) will be reduced in the exhibition.
The dates are listed in the flyer and on the website.
The group aimed not to portray illness as an individual problem that must be overcome alone, but to show its complex connections with social neglect and structural inequalities.
In this context, this exhibition draws attention to the structural and intersectional disadvantages faced by disabled, chronically ill, and/or neurodivergent people in a late-capitalist, ableist system.
How can illness be turned into a weapon?
When it became clear that the abandoned building was to be transformed into artists’ studios, the initiative Kampfkomitee Bethanien, among others, demanded to use the space as a children’s polyclinic.
In the exhibition, 17 artists are brought into dialogue with the site where these specific political struggles played out. The artists present critiques of the current conditions in art and healthcare policy, and point towards alternatives.
The group exhibition Turn Illness into a Weapon – Artistic Perspectives within Healthcare Movements takes its starting point from the grassroots healthcare struggles around the former Diakonissen- Krankenhaus (protestant hospital) Bethanien in 1970s Berlin.
With
Anguezomo Mba Bikoro
The Chronic Iconic (Jessica Cummin)
Chloe Pascal Crawford
Criptonite (Edwin Ramirez & Nina Mühlemann)
Miriam Döring
Tomás Espinosa
Eva Egermann & Cordula Thym
Lotti Fellner-Wyler
Feministische Gesundheitsrecherchegruppe
Cornelia Herfurtner
Kallia Kefala
Magda Korsinsky
Julia Lübbecke
MELT (Ren Loren Britton & Iz Paehr)
Silvi Naçi
Sophie Utikal
RA Walden
Curated by: Linnéa Meiners
Curatorial Assistant: Gianna Ehrke
Events
Opening: Friday, 31/05/24, 5 - 11 pm
7 pm welcome: Stéphane Bauer,
opening speech: Linnéa Meiners
Followed by a concert by Gigolo Tears
Video Intervention by Power Makes us Sick (PMS)
Wednesday, 05/06/24, 6 pm
Curatorial tour with Linnéa Meiners
Monday, 10/06/24, 6 pm
Tour in German Sign Language
Thursday, 13/06/24, 6 pm
Tour for blind and visually impaired people
with Ugne Metzner and Franciska JC Schmit
Thursday, 20/06/24, 6 pm
Tour with Gianna Ehrke with translation in German Sign Language
Saturday, 22/06/24, 10:30 a.m.
Walking tour through Schokofabrik, HeileHaus
Thursday, 27/06/24, 6 pm
Film screening SPK Komplex, 111 minutes, German with English subtitles
Followed by a conversation with director Gerd Kroske and protagonist Carmen Roll
Wednesday, 03/07/24, 10:30 am and 6 pm
MÜDE by Kallia Kefala
10:30 am: Low Sensory Performance 6:00 pm: Higher Sensory Performance
Friday, 05/07/24, 5 p.m.
We doctor ourselves!
Gigolo Tears, celebrating disabled and crazy - Pride Parade Berlin & Cashmiri
Concert, participatory performance and DJ set
Monday, 12/08/24, 6 pm
Podium moderated by Kate Brehme
Sunday, 18/08/24, 5 pm
Finissage with curatorial tour
with Linnéa Meiners
Low-Sensory Timeslots
Every Wednesday, for two hours in the morning or evening respectively, sensory stimuli (volume, light, number of visitors) will be reduced in the exhibition.
The dates are listed in the flyer and on the website.
Runtime: Sat, 01/06/2024 to Sun, 18/08/2024
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